https://popculturereferences.com/when-did-new-girl-jump-the-shark/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Fri, 28 Jan 2022 05:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://popculturereferences.com/when-did-new-girl-jump-the-shark/#comment-1335 Fri, 28 Jan 2022 05:11:00 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1581#comment-1335 When Marlon Waylans joined the show. Then it jumped the shark a few more times.

]]> https://popculturereferences.com/when-did-new-girl-jump-the-shark/#comment-986 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 14:09:12 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=1581#comment-986 I was ready to give up on the show right before Jess got her jury duty break. There was an extended fall down some stairs that just seemed so pointless and hammy that I was worried the show was about to become unwatchable, but it did have some solid laughs after that as well. (One nice thing about a show that allows improvisation is that the cast can stay pretty consistently funny even if the writing room takes a turn, and little improvised lines from Schmidt and Winston are what make the show for me.) So I am tempted to say Jess falling down the stairs is my moment, but then later that same episode Nick yells at the random woman he kidnapped, “And stop being so mean to me, or I swear to God I’m gonna fall in love with you,” so I don’t really believe the show was too big of a drop off in quality. Maybe it jumps a minnow?

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